From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 31 15:29:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA13623 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 31 Jul 1998 15:29:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA13612 for ; Fri, 31 Jul 1998 15:29:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA17245; Fri, 31 Jul 1998 15:29:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 15:29:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: William Woods cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Zip Help...please In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 31 Jul 1998, William Woods wrote: > OK, I am tryiing to format a ZIP drive on sd6: > > this is what I am doing and the error I am getting.... > > bash-2.01# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rsd6 count=100 > 100+0 records in > 100+0 records out > 51200 bytes transferred in 2.038929 secs (25111 bytes/sec) > bash-2.01# disklabel -rw sd6 zip100 > disklabel: ioctl DIOCWLABEL: Operation not supported by device <<-- What's this? It means that sd6 didn't want your disklabel. Make sure it's found during the boot probes, and boot with a disc in the drive so the the drive size information is found. See http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/diskformat/ for info. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message